Subject: Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
       Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 16:11 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Maybe. But maybe it's representative... so far in this merge 
> > window, 100% of the powerpc build and runtime breakage upstream 
> > comes from stuff that didn't get into -next before.
> 
> But that's axiomatic, isnt it? linux-next build-tests PowerPC as the 
> first in the row of tests - so no change that was in linux-next can 
> ever cause a build failure on PowerPC, right?

I'd have to check with Stephen but I think linux-next tests a whole
bunch of archs each round. Anyway, the idea is, just don't get things
upstream before the at least had a chance to go through that little bit
of integration testing .. Is it -that- hard ?

Oh and before you ask me, yes, I do the same mistakes, and I have been
caught too merging things at the last minute that ended up broken and
that could have been caught by -next... I'm just trying to advocate the
idea that we all try to improve in that area :-)

Cheers,
Ben.


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